托福寫作例子總結：事件類

　　Louisiana Purchase

　　Thomas Jefferson, unconstitutional, opposition, at a critical juncture

　　自己做決定的重要性

　　Alaska Purchase

　　"Seward's Folly", gold was discovered in Alaska in 1897, the deal paid off thousands of times over

　　take risks的意義

　　the founding of the Library of Congress

　　no books or not even any building to put books in when the resolution was passed

　　果斷行動的必要性

　　Mt. Rushmore National Memorial

　　originally intended to be a tribute to figures from the Old West, ended up with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt

　　按計劃工作還是有創(chuàng)意的工作

　　the Twenty-First Amendment

　　the repeal of Prohibition, drinking alcohol was legal again, poorly-planned, only 550 agents enforced the ban in the whole country

　　政府與個人leisure的關系/計劃的重要性

　　Marbury vs. Madison

　　the basis of judicial review

　　個人經驗vs.他人建議

　　the Underground Railroad

　　Block slaves, abolitionists, secret routes

　　the Bay of Pigs(這個可跟豬流感沒什么關系)

　　the entire world was on the brink of

　　nuclear war, destruction of the sites might trigger World War III, doing nothing means exposing America to possible nuclear destruction.

　　高效率不完美vs. 低效率完美

　　Sputnik

　　Soviet satellite, shocked Americans, efforts to catch up with the Soviet Union in space

　　太空研究

　　Model T

　　assembly lines, mass production, effective advertising

　　廣告和產品的相互依存關系

　　At first, the game was described as "too long, too dull and burdened with 52 fundamental play errors" by a game company.

　　沒想到吧 ?連“大富翁”游戲的成功也充滿了曲折

　　latchkey kids

　　lack of parental supervision

　　工作與家庭的關系 empty nest syndrome

　　the extended family is less common; loneliness

　　年輕人與老年人的關系

　　the Three-Mile Island accident

　　the safety of nuclear plants; ralatively low levels of radiation; no new nuclear plants were built in America since the accident

　　科技對生活的改變是利還是弊

　　the Exxon Valdez Oil Spoil

　　the ship's captain, negligence

　　個人對于環(huán)境可能造成的影響

　　the impeachment of Bill Clinton

　　"I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again… I never told anybody to lie a single time. These allegations (指控)are false and I need to go back to work for the American people."

　　lies & truth

　　the digital divide

　　gap; access to more information

　　科技讓生活更簡單還是更復雜

　　Child pornography

　　proliferation

　　互聯(lián)網的利弊

　　Obama Girl

　　an Internet celebrity, I got a crush on(暗戀)Obama

　　媒體的影響

　　the Challengerdisaster broke apart, seven crew members

　　太空研究

　　the Mars Exploration Mission

　　the Spirit Rover & the Opportunity Rover

　　太空研究

　　the national debt topped $ 11.4 trillion

　　credit, emergency

　　plan & risk 話題

　　Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

　　"Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is in crisis, but you get to keep $ 480 million (￡276 million). I have a very basic question for you, is this fair?"

　　“有米”是否是成功的唯一標準

　　the subprime mortgage crisis

　　high-risk loans, uncalculated

　　risk risk 話題

　　Goole Earth

　　convenience, great accessibility

　　科技是否讓生活更復雜

　　An Inconvenient

　　Truth/ Our Choice Al Gore

　　個人與環(huán)境的關系

　　American Idol

　　Simon Cowell

　　是否應該總講真話/cooperation

　　Haiti earthquake

　　catastrophe humanitarian

　　是否應該關注與我們生活不直接相關的時事